pseudomodernist

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pseudo- +‎ modernist

Adjective[edit]

pseudomodernist (not comparable)

  1. Having a modernist or postmodernist appearance but not having the associated qualities
    • 2015 September 5, Ned Beauman, “The Walkie Talkie is a sty in London's eye – and proves we can't say no to money”, in The Guardian[1]:
      More than ever, architecture seems to be where the contemporary moment is dramatised: the oligarchs in their new penthouses, the bondholders in their new office towers, and the rest of us, competing for pseudomodernist new-builds designed on the understanding that we will be grateful to find anywhere at all to live.